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“Renaissance” is a French
word which means rebirth, reawakening or revival. In literature the term
“Renaissance” is used to denote the revival of ancient classical literature and
culture and re-awakening of human mind, after the long sleep in the Medieval
Ages, to the glory, wonders and beauty of man’s earthly life and nature. The
great literary movement, Renaissance began in Italy with the fall
of Constantinople in 1453. But its influence was not felt
in England till the last years of the fifteenth century when the
English scholars who visited Italy at the time came back
to England nourished on the Renaissance humanism. The Renaissance,
however, had its full blossoming in the Elizabethan period (1551-1603). This late
flowering of the Renaissance was due to the religious dissension (Reformation)
which swept over England before Elizabeth‘s accession to the
throne.
The most interesting
significant product of the early Renaissance was the translation of Greek and
Roman literature. The translators opened for their countrymen a window into the
enchanted world of classical antiquity which appeared with all the freshness of
a new discovery, the world of the gods and the goddesses
of Greece and the great soldiers and statesmen and the Roman
Empire. Moreover they brought their readers too into contact with the life and
thought of contemporary Europe, and especially of Renaissance Italy. The
invention of the printing press placed the translations within the reach of the
common people. The translators amassed rich stores of material for the
dramatists and poets of the future. Let us now consider the impact of the
Renaissance on Elizabethan poetry, drama and prose..........................................
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